A perfect marriage: bugs, kids, and Fandex. Meet South
America''s Hercules Beetle, as big as a dollar bill and the
strongest creature on earth, able to lift 850 times its body
weight. That''s like a 100-pound person lifting four school buses!
The Black Widow Spider, whose females, contrary to reputation,
rarely eat their mates. And the wonderfully bizarre Walking Stick,
sometimes called "Frankenstick" for its ability to reattach its own
severed head. Plus Treehoppers and Leafhoppers, centipedes and
millipedes, stealthy Assassin Bugs, and twelve thousand varieties
of ant.
Bringing the world''s most fascinating creepy-crawlies—insects,
spiders, scorpions, and other Arthropoda—to your fingertips, Bugs
combines fascinating information about 48 creatures with die-cut,
full-color photographs that reveal their subjects'' shimmery wings,
iridescent shells, vivid hues, and bold shapes in astonishing
detail. Every card includes a detailed description, habitat and
scientific name, lore, field notes on lifecycle, identifiers, and
size, as well as sidebars covering topics such as the fly''s ability
to walk upside-down and how bees make honey.
關於作者:
Sarah Goodman is a writer, editor, and animation producer who
is expert at distilling the facts of science into fun, useful
formats. She lives in Boston.
^Louis N. Sorkin, B.C.E., is a renowned
entomologistarachnologist at the American Museum of Natural
History, where he has worked for the last 30 years.